Rockstar knows there’s a lot of frustrated players out there, and has decided to apologize with a large deposit of cash. Not real cash, mind, but virtual GTA$ deposited into each player’s account.

This so called stimulus package will see $500,000 deposited into your GTA Online bank account before the end of the month. Those deposits should start appearing as early as next week, though, and will actually involve two deposits of $250,000 each. Rockstar says it’s necessary to split the half million in two so as not to unbalance the in-game economy.

There’s a couple of pre-requisites for receiving the cash donation. First of all you need to have logged in and played GTA Online at some point this month (October 2013). Also, the deposits won’t happen until you have updated your game with the 1.04 patch, which will be released next week and aims to fix a number of issues including lost vehicle purchases.

So as soon as the patch is announced you need to download and apply it to your copy of the game. After that, it’s just a case of waiting for the first $250,000 to automatically appear in your account.